The Rev. Jennie English checks her map after placing a cross in the ground March 25, 2016, near the scene where a fatal shooting took place earlier in the year at South Cottage Grove Avenue and East 100th Place in Chicago.

As the number of Chicago homicides has climbed quickly this year, faith and community leaders in Chicago's Beverly and Morgan Park neighborhoods hope to see an Easter in the city with no killing. They chose Easter Sunday, when Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, because, they say, a day without deadly violence would be a day of resurrection for the city.